Ironing boards



F. T. D. MOORE IRONING BOARDS May 22, 1956 Filed May 19, 1954 W 1mmMiami/ 27. 174mg,

United States Patent IRONING BOARDS Frank Thomas Darton Moore, Pinner,England Application May 19, 1954, Serial No. 430,917

2 Claims. (Cl. 38-123) This invention relates to ironing boards of thekind comprising a board member and crossed pivoted legs for supportingsaid board member in horizontal position, one leg being pivoted to theboard member and the other leg being adapted to engage with stop meansthereon, its object being to provide an improved construction whereinthe relative position of the legs in erected position can be varied in asubstantially continuous manner between limits for variation of theheight of the board member.

According to the present invention such an ironing board structure ischaracterised by the provision of a flexible draw member secured to theother leg and fixed catch means mounted on the board member to serve foradjustable engagement of the draw member thereon, whereby the legs aresecurable in dilferent relative positions for adjustment of the heightof the board member. The draw member may also advantageously be used fordrawing the legs of the structure together for folding purposes.

The leg to which the draw member is secured may be made in two pivotedparts one of which, having the draw member attached thereto, may befolded to lie within the other part beneath the board member. With sucha construction the legs may be folded up to lie flat against theunderside of the board member.

To limit the possible movement of the other leg with respect to theboard member the latter may be provided at the underside with aslide-way to receive the end of said leg.

The draw member is conveniently passed through an aperture at the end ofthe board member adjacent the pivoted leg and in a practical form ofconstruction consists of a chain, the catch means to co-act therewithconsisting of a tongue secured on the board member and adapted to engagethrough the links of the chain.

An example of construction of the ironing board according to the presentinvention is hereinafter particularly described with reference to theaccompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the board in erected position; Fig. 2 is arear elevation of the board in folded position; Fig. 3 is an elevation,to a much enlarged scale, of a chain draw member and its manner ofengagement with a catch member.

In these figures a board member 1 has near one end two brackets 2serving for the piovtal attachment of a pair of rear legs 3. Towards theother end of the board member 1 and underneath it is provided a slideway4 receiving in it a cross-bar 5 joining the upper ends of upper portions6 of a pair of front legs, the lower portions 7 being pivoted to theportion 6 at 8. Said lower portions 7 are also pivoted to the rear legsat 9. The crossbar 5 also carries a bar 10 to which is secured a chain11 Patented May 22, 1956 which passes through an aperture 12 in across-member 13 at the rear end of the board member 1. The free end ofthe chain has a handle 14 secured thereon, the chain being inserted intoa recess in the handle and a transverse pin being passed through thehandle to secure the chain. On the cross-member 13 and adjacent to theaperture 12 is secured a rigid tongue 15 adapted to engage through thelinks of the chain.

In the erected position shown in Fig. l, the X-shaped structure formedby the front and rear legs would tend to slide, under gravity, to thelowest position of the board 1 determined by the outward movement of thecross-bar 5 in the slideway 4. The position of the legs is howeverdetermined by engagement of the chain 11 on the tongue 15 in the desiredposition such that the chain acts as a tension link. The board as awhole can therefore be adjusted through the whole range of heightsrepresented by movement of the cross-bar 5 along the slide-way 4.

For folding the board structure the chain 11 is pulled through theaperture 12 as far as it will go to the left in Fig. 1 and the front legupper portions 6 are then folded about their pivots 8 into a positionflat against the underside of the board member 1, as clearly illustratedin Fig. 2. This movement brings the lower parts 7 of the front legs, andalso the rear legs 3, into a corresponding position fiat against theunderside of the board member 1.

I claim:

1. An ironing board structure comprising a board having an ironingsurface, a first leg pivoted at the underside of said board, a secondleg having upper and lower parts pivoted end-to-end, the lower of saidparts being disposed across and pivoted to the first leg and the upperof said parts being arranged to abut against the underside of the board,a flexible draw member secured to the upper end of the upper part of thesecond leg, and catch means carried at a fixed point of the board remotefrom the second leg, said catch means serving to engage with the drawmember at a selected position along the length of the latter todetermine the maximum separation of the upper part of the two legs, andthe height of the board.

2. An ironing board structure comprising a board having an ironingsurface, a first leg pivoted at the underside of said board, a secondleg having upper and lower parts pivoted end-to-end, the lower of saidparts being disposed across and pivoted to the first leg and the upperof said parts being arranged to abut against the underside of the board,a chain secured at one end to the upper end of the upper part of thesecond leg and a tongue carried at a fixed point of the board remotefrom the second leg, said tongue serving for the engagement thereon of aselected link of the chain to determine the maximum separation of theupper part of the two legs and the height of the board, and a handle atthe other end of the chain for manual operation thereof.

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